Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal will meet Indian Institutes of Technology, IIT, Directors tomorrow to resolve the common entrance examination which is being resisted by some of them. Mr. Sibal will chair the meeting of the IIT Council, the highest decision making body of the elite institutes comprising of IIT directors and heads of other educational bodies. The meeting will deliberate on a resolution adopted by the IIT Joint Admission Board, JAB, which met last Saturday in New Delhi.

The resolution was adopted by the JAB after discussing a compromise formula which was supposedly floated by the ministry to end the current impasse. As per the compromise formula, JAB has sought a suitable time gap between the main and the advanced tests so that the results of mains are available before the advanced and only the top one lakh fifty thousand candidates in the mains appear in the advance test.

AIR correspondent reports IIT-Delhi and IIT-Kanpur have rejected the proposed examination format on the ground that it was academically unsound and procedurally untenable. The government had on 28th of last month announced a new format of common entrance test for IITs and other central institutes such as NITs and IITs which will also take the plus two board results into consideration.